New! Online submission
(August
28, 2011)With the aim of further streamlining the editorial process, the
editorial board of Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences has
decided to adopt a new policy for submitting manuscripts as outlined below.
Details are given in theINSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTORS

below:
The
editorial looks forward to many new submissions along these lines.

Manuscripts to be considered
for publication in the Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological
Sciences should be original, high-quality scientific manuscripts
concerned with mineralogical and petrological sciences and related
fields. Submitted papers must not have been published previously in
any language, and author(s) must agree not to submit papers under
review in the Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences to
other journals. The editorial board reserves the right to reject any
manuscript that is not of high quality and that does not comply with
the journal format outlined below. The editorial board is keen to
encourage the submission of articles from a wide range of
researchers. Information on submitting manuscripts is also available
from the journal web site(http://jams.la.coocan.jp/jmps.htm).

The journal will consider
both original articles and reviews written in English, as well as letters that contain important original content.
The manuscript should be submitted via our web-based system below:
ONLINE SUBMISSION Submission of the manuscript by e-mail is not accepted.
Original articles should be informative and concise, with no
more than the minimum necessary number of illustrations and tables.
The following length restrictions apply to manuscripts: original
articles should be less than 15 printed pages, letters less than
four pages, and reviews less than 15 pages.
Manuscripts should be
organized as follows.a. Title
b. Name(s), address(es), and e-mail address(es) of the author(s)
c. Abstract (less than 400 words) with several key words
d. Introduction
e. Descriptions of materials, areas, and methods of study
f. Results and data
g. Interpretation and discussion
h. Concluding remarks
i. Acknowledgments
j. Referencesk. Table titles
and footnotes
l. Figure captions
m. Tables
n. Figures
Authors may omit some of the sections listed above if appropriate.
The format requirements for review articles are flexible; potential
contributors can obtain further details from the editorial office.
Meteorite names in the manuscript should follow the nomenclature approved by the Meteorite Nomenclature Committee of the Meteoritical Society. The names can be checked at the following website:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php

1. All tables will be used for direct
photo-offset reproduction. Authors should therefore prepare compact
and clearly organized tables. Their formats for printing should be Microsoft Word or Excel, not pdf.

2. Letters within tables should be in 9-point font. Do not use vertical lines in tables. The uppermost and lowermost horizontal lines in the table should be 1.5-point line weight, and intermediate lines should be 0.5 point.

3. Tables should be numbered with Arabic numerals. They are not interspersed in the manuscript, but at end of manuscript.

4. Table titles should be brief and typewritten above them, and author’(s) name should be
below on the same page.

5. Tables’ titles and foot notes are also typewritten at the end of manuscript as a list.

6. Each table should fit into either one or two columns of text, or, if necessary, into a landscape (horizontal) format.

1. References should be cited in the
text using the family name of the author(s) and the year of
publication. If two or more authors are cited within single
parentheses, they should be listed chronologically.
Examples are
given below. …...the mixing property (Guggenheim, 1952)
is treated ......
…...according to Prigogine and Defay (1954), …...
……Margules et al. (1895) provided …...References cited in the text
should be listed in full and in alphabetical order at the end of the
manuscript. However, chronological order takes
precedence over alphabetical order when referring to multiauthored
papers.
Journal names should be written in full.

2. References should be formatted as
illustrated in the following examples:

To keep the
subscription costs low, the publication expenses of the Journal of
Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences (JMPS) are largely covered
by the revenue generated from page charges and offprint orders. For
this reason, the authors are asked to make every effort to obtain
funds for page charges or offprints from their granting agency or
institution. Authors are requested to pay page charges of JPY4,000 per printed page with 50 offprints. However, if
all authors are students and cannot pay page charges, the first author will receive 20 offprints at no charge. Further, if
the first author is a JAMS member, ‘Senior’ and over,
but cannot pay page charges,
they are entitled to publish their paper as a benefit of membership at no charge but receive no offprint. Galley proofs will be sent along with a page charge
order form and billing instructions. This form should be completed
and returned along with the galley proof to the Editorial Office.
Any changes to the figures or tables made during the
galley-proof stage will cost a minimum of JPY 1,000, depending on
the scale of the changes. These costs will be met by the author(s).
Major changes made during the galley-proof stage will incur
considerable costs that will be charged to the author(s).
Wherever necessary, accepted manuscripts will be revised by
the editorial board with regard to the English expression and grammar
used at no charge. To minimize the workload of the editorial board,
the submitted manuscripts (including the text, figures, and tables)
are not returned to the author(s) upon acceptance. We ask for your
understanding.

The copyright of papers accepted for
publication in the Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological
Sciences belongs to Japan
Association of Mineralogical Sciences.
The copyright status form "Transfer of Copyright
Agreement" must be signed and sent to the editorial office once the
paper is accepted for publication.

We accept depository and supplementary documents,
tables and figures as supplementary material to be added to the
journal web site. Color versions of the figures
are also accepted as supplementary material. These items can be
deposited at the editorial office and need not comply with the above
guidelines. Depository and supplementary items should be submitted
in PDF (preferable), Word, Excel, EPS, Gif or TXT format, and
submitted along with the manuscript. Please place each supplementary
item in a separate file; a maximum of 5 files are allowed per
manuscript. The size of any one file must be less than 5 MB. Please contact
the editorial office for further information.